Mission Methods 


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Carrie Lee Campbell 




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Mission Methods 


By 


CARRIE LEE CAMPBELL 




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Copyright, 1923 
By 

Carrie Lee Campbell 


MAR 19 ’23 

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EARNEST HEARTS 

WHO ARE TRYING TO PRESENT MISSIONS IN A 

SIMPLE WAY 

THIS BOOK IS LOVINGLY 
DEDICATED 


AN APPRECIATION 


Miss Carrie Lee Campbell's “Mission Methods" 
contains a wealth of the happiest and most prac¬ 
tical suggestions for interesting people of all ages 
in Home and Foreign Missions. Programs, maps, 
flags, games, costumes, blackboards, the alphabet, 
ribbons, postals, pictures, telegrams, posters—it 
has in fact about everything that a bright mind, a 
fertile fancy, and a knowledge of human nature 
can suggest to give life, color, movement, and often 
humor, to mission people, customs, places, names, 
and needs. Facts made fascinating, or informa¬ 
tion made entertaining, would be a good sub-title . 
It should prove a God-send to leaders of mission 
classes, circles, young people, auxiliaries, and a 
death blow to dull mission meetings. 

EGBERT W. SMITH, 

Executive Secretary, 
Foreign Missions. 



Mission Methods 


SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES 

For the first exercise have the school by 
classes search for God’s commands and promises 
concerning this great business of taking the 
world for Christ. 

Give out such Bible references as “Go ye into 
all the world,” “The earth shall be filled with 
the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover 
the sea,” “These shall come . . . from the 

land of Sinim,” “I will give thee the heathen for 
thine inheritance,” and others that will add 
strength to the thought that the work is of God, 
all for Him, and to be done in His strength 
alone. 

From a large cardboard displayed in full view 
have the school read these words: “You can do 
more than pray after you have prayed, but you 
can not do more than pray until you have 
prayed,” from S. D. Gordon. 



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FOUR SPECIAL PROGRAMS 

ft*. 

Be sure to plan well ahead for four special 
programs which will come to your school from 
the four Executive Committees all well planned 
out for you. 

One from the Home Mission office, one from 
the Foreign Mission office, another from the 
Sunday School Committee, Richmond, Va., 
and one from the office of Christian Education 
and Ministerial Relief. 

The times for these programs are set by the 
authorities. Be sure to know in time that these 
have come to your school. (For addresses, see 
Appendix.) 


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OUR CHURCH 

On a map of the United States mark off the 
States from Maryland to Texas and run the 
line north of Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky 
and West Virginia. Drill the pupils in the 
names of these States and help them to remem¬ 
ber that this is the territory of our Southern 
Presbyterian Church. Call on different classes 
to give these names; call for some name outside 
of this boundary line as a catch until they know 
intelligently where the home of our Church is. 

And on this same Sunday have some class, 
who has been asked beforehand to find the in¬ 
formation, give the number of communicants 
in the whole Church. 


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THE WORKSHOPS 

Place in this same map which has been studied 
a star at the place where each committee is 
located: Foreign Missions at Nashville, Tenn.; 
Home Missions at Atlanta, Ga.; Publication, 
Young People’s Work and Sabbath School Ex¬ 
tension at Richmond, Va.; Christian Educa¬ 
tion and Ministerial Relief at Louisville, Ky.; 
the Assembly’s Training School at Richmond, 
Va.; the Bible Society at New York; the Gen¬ 
eral Assembly’s Stewardship Committee at 
Chattanooga, Tenn., and the Woman’s Auxiliary 
at St. Louis, Mo. 

Explain to the school that these are our “work¬ 
shops,” where the Executive Secretaries do 
our work for us in the evangelization of the part 
of the world for which we are responsible, here 
in the United States and in other lands. Have 
a representative from different classes place 
each star and tell what each place stands for. 

See “Church at Work” (Appendix). 


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THE ASSEMBLY’S DOLLAR 

Cut from a large sheet of silver paper a large, 
round “silver dollar.” Slice it in pie fashion 
in these proportions: Foreign Missions, 55%; 
Assembly’s Home Missions, 27J^%; Christian 
Education and Ministerial Relief, 123^%; Sab¬ 
bath Extension and Publication, 3%; the Assem¬ 
bly’s Training School, 1%; and the Bible So¬ 
ciety, 1%. 

Have this dollar pinned on the blackboard 
and have the pupils come up and get the part 
belonging to the special work that each repre¬ 
sents. The Foreign Missionary ready to travel 
(suitcase, etc); the Home Missionary accom¬ 
panied by Indians and mountain school chil¬ 
dren; the Sunday School missionaries ready to 
go out in a company; and the aged minister or 
the orphaned children; a young man with a 
load of Bibles (colporteur); then the young wo¬ 
man eager to go to the Training School. To 
each give the part of the dollar that his cause 
should receive until the whole dollar is gone. 

Explain clearly that this is the benevolent 
dollar: not the money that is spent on the 
home work of any local church. 


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THE MISSIONARY DOLLAR 

Cut out of a sheet of silver paper a large circle 
to represent this dollar. Mark off on this these 
proportions: 49c, 39c, 5j^c, 63^c. 

Have the missionary with his family come up 
and take the 49c slice, while some one explains 
fully that he does not get all this, but that it 
must cover the expenses of travel, and outfit, 
and rent, and all sick expenses on the field for 
himself and his family. 

Then have natives of all the seven fields come 
up, including evangelists, nurses and teachers, 
and explain that this money (39c) must cover all 
expenses of their work, buildings, rents, press 
and other things. 

The 63^c must be accounted for by a business 
man, who tells of the use of this money in all 
sorts of educational propaganda, conferences, 
visiting missionaries and other things at home 
necessary to the great publicity needed. 

Then some one representing the treasurer at 
Nashville explains that the remaining 53^c 
wanted to go to the field, too, but it had to stay 
at home to help interest the people of the 
Church who must be told of the work by much 
printing, mail and appeals before they are glad 
to give to this great cause. 

If this missionary dollar needs to be impressed 
a second time, have it built back on the black¬ 
board another Sunday with explanations similar 
to those given above. 


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HOW WE SPEND OUR MONEY IN THE 
UNITED STATES 

Out of a cigar box have drawn a long strip 
of paper three inches wide bearing the figures 
$ 2 , 100 , 000 , 000 . 

On a similar strip from a toy automobile 
the figures $2,000,000,000. 

Out of a candy box the strip bearing 

$1,000,000,000. 

Out of a chewing gum box the figures 
$50,000,000. 

A movie reel might be brought in here and 
have the bearer run across the platform and on 
out of sight, so letting the amount be beyond 
reckoning. 

On a far corner of the platform aloof from all 
the others let somebody show a very small mite 
box, with figures so small that they will need to 
be read aloud to be understood—$3.25. Have 
somebody explain that this is the amount that 
Southern Presbyterians gave per capita last year 
to Foreign Missions. 

Make clear the fact that the larger amounts 
concern all the United States and the last 
amount is the gift of our own Church for Foreign 
Missions. 

(Note.—These figures will have to be changed 
every year. Watch the daily and the Church 
papers. Keep informed and make the neces¬ 
sary changes.) 


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WHAT IS THE NEED? PRAYER 

Have ready the flags of the seven fields. 

Have the above question asked by the leader. 
Then have a scholar bring out large card bearing 
the word “Preacher,” and holding the flag of 
Congo over this. Next the words “Rural 
workers” under the flag of Japan. Then “Addi¬ 
tional help” and the flag of Brazil. The words, 
“Your sons,” with the flag of China. “Evan¬ 
gelists” and the flag of Korea. “Re-enforce¬ 
ments” and the two flags of Cuba and Mexico. 

These initial letters of the needs spell “Prayer” 
and it would be more effective to have them 
come out in reverse order, and then when the 
question is repeated again have them all slip 
quietly into the proper places and have the 
audience give the answer in concert, “Prayer.” 

(For Flags, see Appendix.) 


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HOW MANY SUNDAY SCHOOL HELPS? 

To show something of the bigness of the work 
done by the Presbyterian Committee of Pub¬ 
lication at Richmond, Va., have a pupil from 
each department of the school bring to the plat¬ 
form a sample copy of the literature used in his 
department of the school and make a large pile 
of these publications, from the Pearls for Little 
Ones to the Earnest Worker. 

If there is time have some one tell something 
about each one as it is placed. 

Write to the Presbyterian Committee of Pub¬ 
lication, Richmond, Va., for these samples of 
their publications. There are twenty-eight of 
these publications. 


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HOW MUCH? 

Write on the blackboard the amount that 
the General Assembly’s Stewardship Committee 
is asking for the current year (see Appendix) 
and have the school work out the problem, 
“How much is this for each member? IIow 
much a day? and How does this amount com¬ 
pare with the amount spent on pleasures every 
day or week?” 

Put spirit and fire in this demonstration. 
Bring the truth home by questions about cost 
of movies, candy, chewing gum, magazines and 
any selfish expenditures that will be effective. 


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HOME MISSION MAPS 

Splendid maps of the Home Mission work can 
be had from the office, 1522 Hurt Building, At¬ 
lanta, Ga. Get a live school teacher to give 
map talks showing where our Home Missionaries 
are working. Have the pupils place marks on 
the schools, churches, different nationalities, 
and ask questions abouGsame. 

Have each class send : a letter, or a book, to 
each worker mentioned. 


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FOREIGNERS HERE AT HOME 

Have pupils in costume to represent each of 
these foreigners that the Home Mission Com¬ 
mittee is reaching with the Gospel: Cubans, 
Syrians, Chinese, Indians, Mexicans, Italjans, 
French, Hungarians, Czecho-Slovaks, and the 
negroes, if a real negro can be secured—a 
made-up one is never taken seriously. 

As these come before the school have each tell 
how many of her race must be reached by our 
Church, and where they are. 

(Get information from Home Mission Com¬ 
mittee. For costumes, see Appendix.) 


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FOREIGN MISSION ALPHABET 

Call for the name of a mission field beginning 
with “A,” then “B,” then “C.” Tell them that 
the next letter is “J,” then “K,” and last “M.” 
So you have the seven fields, for there are two 
“C’s.” Africa, Brazil, China and Cuba, Japan, 
Korea and Mexico. Drill the school till they 
can easily run over this missionary alphabet, as 
you ask for “A country beginning with A”; 
“With B,” and so on. 


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FLAGS 

How the children do love them! Show the 
flags of all the mission fields, having the school 
tell what each one is. So familiarize them with 
these six flags that they will always know them 
anywhere as representing our special work in 
the seven countries. 

Call on a class of boys, and then one of girls; 
or, one side of the room, then the other. This 
exercise lends itself to much enthusiasm. 

(For flags, see Appendix.) 


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A VIEW OF THE FIELD 

The field is the world, and a good map can be 
had from Nashville (see Appendix). On this 
map fasten at Nashville seven red ribbons, or 
tapes, and call them *‘arteries” of the work. 
Make these of needed length to reach the seven 
fields and fasten at the end of each ribbon the 
date of the opening of the work in that country 
to which this ribbon is to reach. 

Have seven pupils attach these ribbons to the 
proper place, in the order of their being opened. 
Then leave this map on the wall ready for the 
next Sunday’s “five minutes.” 


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IIOW MANY WORKERS? 

On the ribbons used last Sunday pin the pic¬ 
ture of a steamer, and on the steamer pin the 
figures that will tell how many workers we have 
sent to each country to do our work. (.See 
Appendix.) Use a train going to Mexico. 
Have pupils from different classes pin these 
figures on. 


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GENERAL QUESTIONS ON MISSIONS 

1. How many souls is our Southern Church re¬ 

sponsible for in the foreign field? 

2. Is any other church planning to evangelize 

these if we fail? 

3. How many missionaries have we sent to 

do this? 

4. How many souls, then, must each one reach? 

5. How many doctors have we in the foreign 

field? 

6. How many bodies must each one help if 

they are helped at all? 

7. How does this number of doctors compare 

with the number on your street? (Have 
them count up.) 

8. How many treatments last year? 

9. Has your church a missionary pastor in the 

foreign field? 

10. What missionaries do you know? (Make 

a list.) 

11. How many converts in our field last year? 

12. Are you praying for a special missionary 

each day? 

(Give out these questions a week before¬ 
hand.) 

(For answers, see Appendix.) 


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OUR FOREIGN FRIENDS 

Have seven pupils represent in costume 
China, Japan, Korea, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, 
and a teacher to speak for Africa. 

Have them each speak for her country, say¬ 
ing: “I am one of your foreign Christian friends; 
I have come to tell you that in my country there 

are-whom you have promised to tell of 

Christ, and only-have yet heard the 

wonderful story. So many to be told and so 
few workers to tell. Won’t you send more mis¬ 
sionaries to my country?” (For numbers see 
“Facts and Figures” in Appendix.) 




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THE SUN NEVER SETS ON OUR 
MISSIONS 

Using a globe of the world, place a small 
cross, cut of paper, on the western territory, 
our frontier work; then one on our field in 
Mexico. If real sunlight is available let it 
shine on these; if not, have a pupil focus the 
light of a flashlight on this part of the map. 
Turn the globe slowly to the east, placing a 
cross on Japan, Korea, China, in order. Before 
the sun leaves one it is shining on the other. 
Next will come Africa, then Brazil, then Cuba, 
and then we are back home and the sun has never 
set on our mission work. Ask the school to 
remember every day to “girdle the earth with 
prayer as the sun girdles it with light.” 


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POST CARD SHOWER 

The missionaries in some parts of the field 
tell us they can use thousands of these cards. 
Have a contest to see which class or department 
can bring in most cards or pictures. Make a 
feature of putting them into some very attrac¬ 
tive receptacle as they come up from the classes 
and write the numbers reported on the black¬ 
board. 

(How to send post cards is told in the Ap¬ 
pendix.) 


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A CHRISTMAS TREE 

And this when it is not Christmas. Find 
your own mission school that so much longs for 
gifts for the children, and tell your school of 
the plan to bring a small gift for each of these 
children. Have a real tree and a real Santa 
Claus, and have this in November, so that the 
Home Mission worker may know in full time 
what good things are coming to her. A few 
dollars plus the ten-cent store, plus the real 
desire to help, and this thing is accomplished. 
And your own pupils made very happy. Pack 
and send early to your home missionary. 


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PUZZLES 

Cut up maps of the seven mission fields 
pasted on stiff board and have the whole “five 
missionary minutes” given up to the building 
of these maps, with some recognition of the 
class which completes its map first. 


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ANAGRAMS 

On the outside of a large envelope paste the 
picture of a home or foreign missionary, but 
give no name. Inside put the letters of this 
missionary’s name, all cut apart and mixed up. 
Ask each class to find out what these letters 
spell. They will find that R-O-M-N-O-S-I-R 
will spell “Morrison,” and Y-E-L-P-L-A-S will 
spell “Lapsley,” and so on with many other 
names. 

As soon as a name is finished have one from 
that class come up and write it on the board, 
thus arousing interest and speed. 


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AN IDOL 

Show an idol and have the school read re¬ 
sponsively Isaiah 44:6-20. Then have a wor¬ 
shipper come in and with clapping of hands be¬ 
fore the idol try to wake him up. Then have 
the school read 1 Kings 18:26-28: “Peradventure 
he sleepeth,” etc. 


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BIBLE IN MANY LANDS 

Get from the American Bible Society, Bible 
House, New York, a book of specimen verses, 
John 3:16 in several hundred languages. Cut 
this up and have pupils come up and paste each 
verse on a large cardboard, telling what land 
he represents. Have them all lined up before¬ 
hand, so as to save time and use as many of the 
languages as possible. Keep this in view for 
many weeks. 

Print in large letters over the poster, “All 
Peoples and Tongues.” 


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IS OUR COUNTRY CHRISTIAN? 

From the census bureau in Washington get 
the religious census of your own State, as well 
as that of the whole country. Make on a 
cardboard a large circle; divide into proper 
proportions the Christian and the non-Chris¬ 
tian parts, making the Christian part white and 
the other black. Under this poster write, 
“Such a per cent Christian; such a per cent non- 
Christian.” Over this poster write, “Is our 
country Christian?” or “Is our State Chris¬ 
tian?” 


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TELEGRAMS 

Get real telegram blanks and write on these 
a true, live, dynamic call or piece of news from 
the Home Mission field, or the Foreign field, 
culled from a personal letter from a worker, or 
some call you have found in the church papers. 
Have these brought into the school by a boy 
wearing a messenger-boy’s suit, and one de¬ 
livered to each class, using the name of the class. 
Have one member of each class read as a very 
vital thing this telegram. 


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BEST POSTER OR SLOGAN 

Start a real rivalry among the different de¬ 
partments for the best poster or slogan having 
the strongest missionary appeal. Set a day 
for these to be brought in, giving at least two 
weeks’ notice. Announce the judges well ahead; 
advertise the matter, and have form and cere¬ 
mony about the final display. Include in 
contest the work of all the four Executive Com¬ 
mittees, especially that of Christian Education 
and Ministerial Relief. 

Make the keynote of these appeals that call 
to life service. Plan some special recognition 
for the best poster and keep all on exhibit for 
several weeks. 

If one department or class wants to give a 
“living poster” as a tableau, encourage the idea; 
it may mean much to those who give it. 


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PLATES 

As a through-the-week activity have the 
classes prepare “missionary plates” by pasting 
on paper plates pictures of missionaries, home 
and foreign, and their homes, and pictures of 
our heathen friends from the mission fields; 
also short sayings about these, including sta¬ 
tistics, missionary sayings, etc. 

These plates can be used by the school or the 
Auxiliary at any social function. 


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CHINA’S NEW FLAG 

Have five pupils build this flag of five colors 
on the blackboard, using ribbons or strips of 
cambric, each telling what national part of 
China the strip represents—The red, pure 
Chinese; the yellow, Manchu; blue, Mongolian; 
white, Tibetan; and the black, Mohammedan. 

Show at the same time the old flag of China, 
the dragon, by way of contrast, quoting, “The 
dragon flopped out and the rainbow rippled in.” 

Leave them hanging side by side for a time 
that the lesson may live and reach others who 
may not be present. 


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PRODUCT MAPS 

Have the scholars make maps of any of the 
mission countries on heavy cardboard, on which 
from Sunday to Sunday they place specimens 
of anything that they have found belongs to 
that place they are studying. Let the speci¬ 
mens include all things of mineral or vegetable 
nature, and the trophies of the animal kingdom 
may be brought in pictures. 

Much interest and many surprises are in 
store in this demonstration. Give notice that 
these maps will be hung in the order of their 
merit, including variety and neatness of dis¬ 
play. 

Have them add to each map the picture of 
one missionary belonging to the country in 
question.1; Be sure to include a Home Mission 
map. 


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WALLS OF DIFFICULTY 

Some of the obstacles met with by our early 
missionaries may be illustrated by cardboard 
walls bearing in order the following words: 
“An unspeakable language,” “Non-sanitation,” 
“Hatred of foreigner,” “Fear,” “Ignorance,” 
“Superstition,” “False religion,” “Caste,” “Cus¬ 
tom,” and others that come to you. 

Let these walls surround a “Heathen Chinese” 
(a picture). Have a missionary approaching 
these walls and as you remove each wall tell 
some story showing how the missionary over¬ 
came that particular barrier. 


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A DOLL CONTEST 

Ask the girls to dress dolls in the costumes of 
our seven mission fields, and have them grouped 
according to countries on a large table where 
all can see them. 

Have three uninterested judges decide which 
are the best representatives of their nations and 
devise some special recognition for the makers 
of the “best dressed dolls.” 

Later let these dolls be taken to the children’s 
wards in the hospitals or to sick children, or 
sent to your Presbyterial, or to meetings of 
other Auxiliaries. 


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A CURIO LOAN COLLECTION 

Start well ahead for this. Have each depart¬ 
ment start out on a hunt for these curios, and 
have them exhibited in sections so that the 
proper class or department may get full credit 
for their work. 

These should be brought in on Saturday and 
placed. The “first honor” should be given for 
the nature of the curios, and the good judgment 
in exhibiting them. Leave these on exhibit 
for some time that the Auxiliary and other or¬ 
ganizations in the Church may have a part in 
the benefit and pleasure of seeing them. 

Pupils in costume might be included in the 
“credits.” 


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A LETTER 

Watch for a good letter from a missionary 
(and there are many); cut this up and have four 
or five pupils who read clearly read this to the 
school. Be sure the readers are so familiar 
with the reading that they will almost tell it, or 
at least read it so as to be heard—every word. 



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PLACE THE WORKERS 

On the map of the world gotten from the Nash¬ 
ville office have different pupils place pictures 
of the home and foreign missionaries and tell 
one fact about each. These pictures you have 
been saving from the ‘‘Survey” and the church 
papers. The number used will be limited by 
the time allotted. Start the scholars on this 
two weeks before. 

(For map, see Appendix.) 


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AGE OF CHINA 

When you have only one minute, have al¬ 
ready pinned on the blackboard two pieces of 
ribbon: one yellow ribbon twenty-four inches 
long, to represent the age of China; and one red, 
white and blue just one inch long to represent 
the age of the United States. Pin these hori¬ 
zontally and write over them both “The com¬ 
parative age of China and the United States.” 


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PICTURES OF HOME MISSION SCENES 

Collect these and have the pupils study for 
a few minutes, two or three pictures in each 
class, and then tell what the picture means to 
them. Have a real contest for the best story 
found in the picture and told in the best way. 
Let some gift go to each Home Mission school 
thus studied. 


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VILLAGES 

Have you seen the Japanese village and the 
African village? These will furnish helpful in¬ 
terest for the Juniors in the cutting out, paint¬ 
ing, and setting-up. Each one has native 
houses and people, and Japanese have rickshas, 
and the African has the typical parrot and 
monkey. These when set up can be brought 
into the Sunday School and one of the Inter¬ 
mediates could give a good account of life in 
these villages, as shown by the village itself. 
(See Appendix.) 


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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 

Be sure to keep in touch with the Home and 
the Foreign Mission offices. Write to Box 300, 
Nashville, Tenn., asking for “Questions and 
Answers” on the different mission fields. There 
are splendid ones on Japan, China, Korea and 
Mexico, and others will be coming out. The 
Home Mission office, 1522 Hurt Building, 
Atlanta, has very helpful questions on the home 
work. 

Get these questions and select a few from 
time to time, giving special questions to different 
classes to prepare beforehand. Do not use too 
many at one time, nor let the lesson become 
heavy. 


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AROUSE RIGHTEOUS CURIOSITY 

When you get a new and interesting mission¬ 
ary book in the library, display this as you tell 
just enough of the story to make the school 
want more, then stop and say, “You can get 
this story from the librarian.” But be sure it 
is interesting or you can never work this plan a 
second time. 


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AN EXAMINATION 

Very successfully in one school the “spice 
box” in the “Survey” has been used for a genuine 
examination. Give the school a week’s warn¬ 
ing and then have the answers to the questions 
written out in full in the missionary A time,_ask- 
ing for a little longer time this day. 

Much rivalry was aroused and the reward 
for each “A” grade paper was a set of colored 
missionary postcards. 


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HOW THEY TRAVEL 

Have put up in each department of the school 
a large cardboard, and have the children bring 
in pictures showing how our missionaries in the 
mountains and in the foreign field travel. 

They will find pictures of these heroes travel¬ 
ing on horses, mules, wheelbarrows, donkeys, 
boats, bicycles, steamers, many things—even 
an automobile now and then. 

Let each child bring up the picture he has 
found and tell to which country it belongs; and 
if he can, mention the name of some missionary 
he knows that travels that way. 



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WHICH FOR AFRICA? 

Short and simple. Hold up to full view a 
large African battle knife in one hand and a 
large open Bible in the other, or have two pupils 
do this, standing under these words in large 
letters, “Which for Africa?” Then have the 
knife disappear slowly behind the Bible and have 
some pupil explain that this is taking place 
during the last thirty years in our own Congo 
field in Africa, where thirty years ago all were 
heathen and where there is now the largest 
church in the Assembly. 


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JUST A STORY 

Sometimes just tell a good missionary story 
or have some member of the school do it. 

Watch the Survey and the Church papers for 
one and put this in your treasure chest for future 
reference. 

Your high school girls and boys may be able 
to tell a story much better than you have ever 
guessed; try them. 

Stories are everywhere if we watch for them, 
but very excellent ones are found in Margaret 
Applegarth’s “Missionary Stories for Juniors,’' 
or “Missionary Stories for Primaries.” (Ap¬ 
pendix.) 


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CHINA NEEDS 

Write this title at the top of the blackboard. 
Have five pupils find the five Bible references. 
As one reads, “He that believeth on the Son hath 
everlasting life: he that believeth not the Son 
shall not see life” (John 3:36) write the word 
“Christ,” leaving the “C” slightly separated 
from the other letters. 

Next, “Give ye them to eat” (Matt. 14:16) 
with emphasis on “ye,” and write under the 
last “Human help,” separating the “H.” 

Then “Pray ye therefore the Lord of the har¬ 
vest” (Matt. 9:39) and write “intercession.” 

And “I will put a new Spirit within you” 
(Ezek. 11:19). Write “New Spirit.” 

And last, “Now then we are ambassadors for 
“Christ.” Write as the fifth word in your 
column “Ambassadors.” 


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SHORT GUTS 

There will come days when the missionary 
superintendent will not have her “five minutes.” 
Be ready for this emergency and use these time¬ 
less methods. 

Mounted leaflets. On colored cardboard 
mount clippings and leaflets or a picture and 
as the children go out from school give each one 
one of these attractive mounts to take home. 
Seed may be sown that will bear much fruit. 

Tags. In the same way have a goodly lot 
of “tags” ready, each bearing a missionary 
message, Home or Foreign, and “tag” the pupils 
as they come or as they go. In this way you 
may get read hundreds of missionary facts. 


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PICTURE STUDY 

Give to each teacher as she comes in as many 
pictures as she has pupils. At the missionary 
time ask her to distribute these to her pupils. 
Then call for one minute’s study of these pic¬ 
tures. Now ask for silent prayer by all the 
school, each one praying for the special need that 
his or her picture portrayed. 

These pictures may be saved from the 11 Sur¬ 
vey” and from other magazines, especially the 
“Geographic.” 


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HOLES IN MAPS 

The Home Mission maps and the map of 
Japan will lend themselves well to this demon¬ 
stration, and others will be worth trying. Cut 
holes in maps, which you have had your high 
school boys and girls enlarge, and through 
these holes have human eyes, mouth and nose 
appear and tell a few important facts about the 
station at that hole on the map. 

For example: Kobe, Japan—“Here is situated 
our Theological Seminary.” Kochi, Japan— 
“Here Miss Dowd carries on her splendid School 
for Girls, for which the Woman’s Auxiliary gave 
the ‘birthday gift’ for a new building.” 

Or from the mountains, Stuart Robinson 
School, Kentucky—“We are outgrowing our 
walls and have to turn away boys and girls who 
want to learn.” Canoe, Ky.—“This place 
used to be a shooting place and often unsafe to 
live in; now that we know about Jesus, it is a 
very good place to live in.” 

Many other things to say will come as you 
study and plan. 


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HOW MANY SOULS TO EACH 
MISSIONARY 

Write on the blackboard 33,000,000. Then 
write 500. Somebody will remember that the 
first number represents our heathen and the 
next number our small army of missionaries. 

Let the leader ask the school to calculate 
quickly how many souls each missionary must 
reach if all are to know of Christ. 

Write the “answer” in large figures and re¬ 
member to call for this next Sunday. 

(See “Facts and Figures.” Appendix.) 


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HOW MANY BODIES TO EACH DOCTOR? 

Have the whole school say in concert, "We 
have left our missionary doctors with more than 
1,000,000 bodies to look after, if all our heathen 
are helped to keep well.” Have some boy give 
the number of treatments of last year. 

(See "Facts and Figures." Appendix.) 


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THE CHURCH PAPERS 

On the map of the United States show the 
cities in which our own Church papers are pub¬ 
lished. The Survey in Richmond, Va.; also 
the Presbyterian of the South; the Christian 
Observer, in Louisville, Ky.; the Presbyterian 
Standard, in Charlotte, N. C.; the Missionary 
Survey, in Richmond, Va. 

Get a sample from each paper (had for the 
asking) and have one pupil pin one at each point 
and tell something of each. Have the names of 
the editors of the Woman’s Department of 
each given. 


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POP-CRACKERS AND BUTTERFLIES 

Make pop-crackers by writing your message 
on white papers 2x4 inches. Paste one two- 
inch edge over a string four inches long. Cut 
red papers a little larger than the white ones. 
Roll up like a pop-cracker, with the “wick” 
hanging out. 

Use these as invitations or to be taken home 
by the children carrying a missionary message. 

To make butterflies cut many dozen from 
different-colored tissue paper, write on each 
some missionary item or appeal. Have these 
blown from an improvised megaphone from 
some point above the school, so that all may re¬ 
ceive a butterfly. A message coming in this 
unusual way will not soon be forgotten. 


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TRAVELING BOXES 

Save pretty boxes. Into these put pictures 
of missionaries attractively mounted on card¬ 
board, a few readable leaflets, some concise 
statistics, a prayer, a poem, and other things, 
but not too many. 

Inside the box top write “Those who read 
sign here.” Have lines ready for signatures 
and a pencil tied to the box. 

Make as many boxes as you have classes in 
school. Start a contest as to which class can 
get the most readers for their box. Have a 
report each Sunday and the final report after 
a whole month’s work. 


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HOLDING THE ROPES 

Tell the story of William Carey and his 
famous saying, “I will go down, but you must 
hold the ropes.” Pin across the breast of a 
young man the word “Missionary”; tie around 
his waist three ropes, the other end of each to be 
carried by another boy. 

Along the length of the first rope fasten cards 
bearing the word “Prayer,” many times re¬ 
peated. Along the second rope tie “money¬ 
bags,” mite boxes and dollar notes—five dollars, 
ten dollars. Along the third rope tie letters, 
papers, magazines, packages, many things 
ready for mailing. 

Accompany this with “fitting remarks” and 
bring out the needs of our missionaries and ask 
if it is fair to send them out and leave them out 
there without these things. 


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A WORTHY MONUMENT 

This monument is to be built of six boxes, 
decreasing in size from bottom to top. If it 
is to be built before a small company, a “nest” 
of hollow blocks, a child’s toy, will serve well; 
if before a larger company, use much larger 
boxes. 

On the bottom box inscribe the name, “Dr. 
Henry H. Sweet’s Committee.” On the next 
five boxes inscribe these subjects in the order in 
which they are given: “Endowment Fund,” 
“Aged Ministers, Widows and Orphans,” “Edu¬ 
cation for Ministry and Mission Service,” 
“Schools and Colleges,” “The Student Loan 
Fund.” Have all boxes covered in white, and 
letters very clearly marked. 

Have a different member of your society 
bring each box and place it, giving some fact 
concerning her subject as she places the box. 

Then have someone state that this represents 
all the varied phases of Dr. Sweets’ work, and 
since it is located in Louisville, the monument 
will be surmounted by a pennant bearing the 
name “Louisville.” 


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LOUISVILLE’S PROPORTION OF 
BENEVOLENT FUND 

A demonstration given by leader of the meet¬ 
ing. 

From a sheet of silver paper cut as large a 
circle as possible to represent a silver dollar. 

Ask that clever high school boy or girl to 
divide the outer edge of the circle into one hun¬ 
dred sections, using a compass or dividers, 
marking the sections, but not cutting them. 

Then draw a line from each to the center of 
the ‘‘dollar”; then cut out a slice of fifty-five 
and a half sections (or cents) as the Foreign 
Mission percentage, and so mark it on the back. 
Cut twenty-seven sections, and mark it for Home 
Missions; twelve and a half sections for Chris¬ 
tian Education and Ministerial Relief; three 
sections for Sunday School Extension and Pub¬ 
lication, and one section for the Bible cause, 
and one for Assembly’s Training School. 

Take away each part as you explain what it 
is and leave the twelve and one-half on the board 
and write over it, “The part that goes to Louis¬ 
ville.” 


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EXERCISE ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION 


Leader—“Why should the Church have a department 
for this work?” 

School —“To recruit the workers and help train 
them.” 

Leader—“Why is it that the ‘laborers are few?’ ” 

School —“The Church has not fully obeyed the 
command of the Master, ‘Pray ye therefore the Lord 
of the Harvest.’ ” 

Leader—“What is the duty of the Church?” 

School —“To continue in united, importunate, be¬ 
lieving prayer to God. To present to the youth of 
the Church the claims of Christ for their lives.” 

Leader—“What is the duty of parents?” 

School —“To train their children in the fear of God 
and for holy ends in life. To create an atmosphere 
in the home where such purposes may thrive.” 

Leader—“What is the duty of our boys and girls?” 

School —“To seek to find God’s plan for their lives, 
and to cry from hearts willing to obey, ‘Lord, what 
wilt Thou have me to do?’ ” 

Leader—“Why has the Presbyterian Church always 
demanded a high grade of education for her ministers and 
missionaries?” 

School —“Because of the deep conviction that those 
who are to be the guides of the people in the highest 
and most enduring things of life should have the 
best training of the schools as well as the blessing 
of God in their lives.” 

Leader—“What education is required for entrance into 
the Presbyterian ministry?” 

School —“The equivalent of a four years’ college 
course and three years in a theological seminary.” 



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Leader—“What training is demanded for our girls who 
enter the mission fields?” 

School—“They should have a four years* college 
course and special training in Bible or professional 
schools.” 

Leader—“What Training School for our young women?” 

School—“The General Assembly’s Training School 
for Lay Workers, located at Richmond, Ya. 

Leader—“Are the candidates usually able, unaided, to 
meet this cost?” 

School—“No. Most of the candidates for the min¬ 
istry and mission service come from the homes of 
poor farmers, ministers and artisans.” 

Leader—“How is assistance rendered them?” 

School—“Loans of $100 a year, to be repaid either 
in money or in service to the Church, are made to 
students in colleges, theological seminaries and the 
Assembly’s Training School.” 

Leader—“Who are eligible for these loans?” 

School—“Candidates for the ministry, recom¬ 
mended by Presbytery; young women who are 
preparing for mission service.” 

Leader — “Who will direct in all this?” 

School—“Dr. H. H. Sweets, Louisville, Ky.” 

Special Helps on Christian Education and 
Ministerial Relief 

Write to Dr. H. H. Sweets, asking for a fine black¬ 
board talk and drawing on “The Christian College,” by 
Miss Eva Cavers. 

Also blackboard talk by Miss Kate Grinstead on “Life 
Annuity Bonds.” 

And the stories, “Sammie’s Call,” by Mrs. Alathea T. 
Cobbs, and “There is a Lad Here,” by James McBride 
Dabbs, and “Scenes in Dr. Sweet’s Office,” by Miss 
Carrie Lee Campbell. 

Many other leaflets and helps can be had for the ask¬ 
ing. Keep in touch with Dr. Sweets. (See Appendix 
for address.) # 


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APPENDIX 

IMPORTANT ADDRESSES 

For Foreign Mission Material, write— 

Executive Committee of Foreign Missions, 

Box 330, Nashville, Tenn. 

Be sure to order “Facts and Figures,” free. 

For Home Mission Material, write— 

Executive Committee of Home Missions, 

1522 Hurt Building, Atlanta. Ga. 

For Helps for Sunday School and Young People’s 
Work, write— 

Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 

Richmond, Va. 

You will need “The Church at Work.” 25 cents. 

For Helps for Christian Education and Ministerial 
Relief, write— 

Dr. Henry H. Sweets, 

410 Urban Building, Louisville, Ky. 

For all literature concerning Woman’s Work, 

write— 

The Woman’s Auxiliary, 

259 Field Building. St. Louis, Mo. 

For all literature on Stewardship, write— 
Assembly’s Stewardship Committee, 

410 Times Building, Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Miss Applegarth’s Missionary Stories for Pri¬ 
maries and for Juniors can be had for $1.75 each from 
the Presbyterian Committee of Publication, Richmond, 
Va. 

Flags—These flags of all our seven and one of the 
United States (eight in the set) can be had for $1.00 from 
Miss Campbell, care The Presbyterian of the South, 
Richmond, Va. (Sold only in sets of eight. Postage, 
5 cents.) 

Order “Mission Methods” from 
Miss Carrie Lee Campbell, 

Richmond, Va. 




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Missionary Map of the World. Send 20 cents to 
Mr. E. D. Grant, Box 330, Nashville, Tenn., asking for 
this good map of our own mission work. 

Home Mission Maps. Write to the Home Mission 
office in Atlanta. They have good things of many 
kinds. 

Facts and Figures. This is the name of a leaflet 
gotten out by the Foreign Mission Committee, giving the 
latest statistics about Foreign Mission work. It is free. 
You will need it often. 

Villages. African Villages and Japanese Villages can 
be had from Miss Campbell, care Presbyterian of the 
South, Richmond, Va. Each, 65 cents. Also the large 
Korean Village painted by Mrs. Crane, of Korea. Rental 
for a visit, $2.00, plus carriage to the place of next engage¬ 
ment. 

Prayer Calendar and the Survey. These will be 
constantly needed to help in many demonstrations. 
The Survey is $1.00; the Prayer Calendar, 15 cents. 
Order from the Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 
Richmond, Va. 


HOW TO SEND 

Post cards, pictures of all kinds and Sunday School 
picture rolls are all needed in many places in the Foreign 
Mission field. Wrap in tough paper, tie strongly and 
mark “Old post cards; no value,” or “Old pictures; no 
value.” This saves the missionary payment of “duty.” 
These go as printed matter. 

Send these to any station in the North Kiangsu field, 
China, or to any station in any part of Korea. Others 
may want them, too. Enquire. 


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BOOKS FOR MISSIONARY LEADERS 

Graded Missionary Education in the Church School. 

Beard....$1.00 

Missionary Education of Juniors. Hutton.75 

The Sunday School Teacher and the Program of 
Jesus. Stowell & Trull.75 

Best Missionary Books for All Ages. (Free leaflet, 
Foreign Mission Board, Box 330, Nashville, Tenn.) 
Making Missions Real. Stowell.75 

Primary Missionary Stories for Little Folks. Apple- 
garth. 1.75 

Junior Missionary Stories for Little Folks. Apple- 
garth. 1.75 

Stories and Story Telling. St. John.85 

Story Telling for Teachers of Beginners and Pri¬ 
mary Children. Cather.60 

The Bible in Graded Story, Book I (for Beginners). 
Baker.75 

The Bible in Graded Story, Book II (for Primaries). 
Baker. 1.00 

More Mother Stories. Lindsay.—.„. 1.25 

Followers of the Marked Trail. Frayser... 1.25 

Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens. Eggleston.... 1.25 

Around the Camp Fire with Older Boys. Eggleston.. 1.25 


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CONTENTS 


Search the Scriptures. 5 

Four Special Programs. 6 

Our Church. 7 

The Workshops. 8 

The Assembly’s Dollar. 9 

The Missionary Dollar. 10 

How We Spend Our Money. 11 

What is the Need? Prayer. 12 

How Many Sunday School Helps. 13 

How Much?. 14 

Home Mission Maps. 15 

Foreigners Here at Home. x . 16 

Foreign Mission Alphabet. 17 

Flags. 18 

A View of the Field. 19 

How Many Workers?. 20 

General Questions and Answers. 21 

Our Foreign Friends. 22 

The Sun Never Sets on Our Missions. 23 

Post Card Shower. 24 

A Christmas Tree. 25 

Puzzles. 26 

Anagrams. 27 

An Idol. 28 

Bible in Many Lands. 29 

Is Our Country Christian?. 30 

Telegrams. 31 

Best Poster or Slogan. 32 

Plates. 33 

China’s New Flag. 34 

































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Production Maps. 35 

Walls of Difficulty. 36 

A Doll Exhibit. 37 

A Curio Loan Collection. 38 

A Letter. 39 

Place the Workers. 40 

Age of China. 41 

Pictures of Home Mission Scenes. 42 

Villages. 43 

Questions and Answers. 44 

Arouse Righteous Curiosity. 45 

An Examination. 46 

How They Travel. 47 

Which for Africa?. 48 

Just a Story. 49 

China Needs. 50 

Short-Cuts. (Leaflets. Tags). 51 

Picture Study. 52 

Holes in Maps. 53 

How Many Souls to Each Missionary?. 54 

How Many Bodies to Each Doctor?. 55 

The Church Papers. 56 

Pop-Crackers and Butterflies. 57 

Traveling Boxes. 58 

Holding the Ropes. 59 

A Worthy Monument. 60 

Louisville’s Proportion of the Benevolent Fund. 61 

Exercise on Christian Education.62-63 

Appendix. 64 


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